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Poems Of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Adonais - Part I

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From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Adonais - Part I

An Elegy on the Death of John Keats

I weep for Adonais - he is dead! O, weep for Adonais! though our tears Thaw not the frost which binds so dear a head! And thou, sad Hour, selected from all years To mourn our loss, rouse thy obscure compeers, And teach them thine own sorrow! Say: 'With me Died Adonais; till the Future dares Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be An echo and a light unto eternity!'

Where wert thou, mighty Mother, when he lay, When thy Son lay, pierced by the shaft which flies In darkness? where was lorn Urania When Adonais died? With ...

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